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Jay County
Indiana Biographies

George S. SCHWARTZ, a well known farmer and stockman of
Greene township and proprietor of a well kept farm on rural mail route No.
1 out of Portland, was born on a farm in Jefferson township, this county,
April II, 1875, and is a son of Charles B. and Ann (ROWLS) SCHWARTZ, both
of whom were born and reared in Germany, the former in Baden and the
latter in Hanover. Charles B. SCHWARTZ was born on April 13, 1832, and in
1854, he then being twenty-two years of age, came to America and proceeded
on out into Indiana, locating in Hamilton county, where for a time he
followed his trade as a tailor and where in 1855 he married Ann ROWLS, who
was born on September 14, 1843, and who was but a child when she came to
this country with her parents. Not long after his marriage Charles B.
SCHWARTZ came to Jay county and bought a farm of forty acres in Madison
township, where he established his home. Not long afterward, however, he
sold this place and bought a tract of sixty acres in Jefferson
township, to which he later added until he had 183 acres there and one of
the best farm plants In that part of the county. Mr. SCHWARTZ was living
in this county at the time of the breaking out of the Civil war and he
enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the
front with one of the Indiana regiments. Upon the completion of his
military" service he returned to his farm and the remainder of his life
was spent in agricultural pursuits. He and his wife were the parents of
seven, children, as is set out elsewhere in this volume, together with
further details regarding the SCHWARTZ family in this county. Of these
children, six are still living, the subject of this sketch having a
sister, Mrs. Caroline HUDSON, and four brothers, John H., Charles, Dr.
William D. and Oliver F. SCHWARTZ. Reared on the home farm in Jefferson
township, George S. SCHWARTZ received his schooling in the local schools
and early began to teach school, a vocation he followed for three years,
meanwhile continuing his labors on the farm. He married at the age of
twenty-six and not long afterward went to South Dakota with a view to
establishing his permanent home in that state. Not finding conditions
there to his liking he moved up into North Dakota two years later and
bought a tract of land on which for ten years he was engaged in raising
sheep and cattle, feeding out annually about 300 sheep and 200 head of
cattle. In 1916 Mr. SCHWARTZ returned to Jay county. He bought a tract of
sixty-five acres in Greene township, the place on which he is now living,
and has since resided there, he and his family being very comfortably and
very pleasantly situated. Mr. SCHWARTZ is a Democrat and gives a good
citizen's attention to local civic affairs. It was on June 15, 1901, that
George S. SCHWARTZ was united in marriage to Sadie LARE, who also was born
in this county, daughter of Charles and Eliza J. LARE, and to this union
two children have been born, Lena and William D. The SCHWARTZ have a
pleasant home and take an interested part in the general social activities
of the community ill which they live. When Mr. SCHWARTZ moved to North
Dakota he bought a half section of land and later increased this holding
until he became the owner of 1,000 acres of land. in that state, which he
still retains, renting the same, besides which he controls an adjacent
tract of 1,500 acres by lease, which gives him a ranch of 2,500 acres for
his extensive live stock operations